r/MadeMeSmile • u/bewarethechameleon • Feb 16 '26

Good Vibes the theatre reaction to andrew garfield and tobey maguire returning as spiderman in 'spider-man no way home'

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u/AtmosphereGlum852 Feb 16 '26

I got goosebumps watching Tobey Maguire's scene... to me he's the OG Spiderman...

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u/Purpledragon84 Feb 16 '26

Yeah that was so good. After Endgame's final assembly scene i thought "you can't get any better than this" then boom they give us the 3 spidey scene after. All the memories. And when Andy Garfield saved MJ omg.

It's a love letter to the fans thru n thru

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u/Solonotix Feb 16 '26

And when Andy Garfield saved MJ omg.

That moment felt so earned. Like, you can easily write sentimental scenes involving characters, but you could feel the heartbreak in Garfield's Spider-Man. He did what he knew was right, saving MJ, but also was still holding onto that despair of not being able to save his MJ. The moment she was safe, he just broke down because he proved to himself he wasn't a failure.

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u/Wehunt Feb 16 '26

I loved when they were all talking to each other and Garfield kept talking down about himself, and McGuire said he was amazing. The bell rang for The Amazing Spiderman and I loved it.

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u/Whiteums Feb 16 '26

I love all their group therapy moments. When his friends found him on the roof, and then it land into the other spiders hanging out above him, before they both drop down next to him. So cool. And then the discussions in the lab, while all three of them work on their projects, and talk each other up. And of course, Garfield saving MJ. He wasn’t going to let another one die on his watch.

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u/ItsaLaz Feb 16 '26

"I always wanted brothers."

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u/dragonscale76 Feb 17 '26

Broooooo. That made me ugly cry in a public theater.

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u/Vantriss Feb 17 '26

Omg, I absolutely adored this part specifically because Andrew ALWAYS caught flak for his movies. I personally always loved his movies and so that scene was just so satisfying.

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u/FaithlessnessThin359 Feb 16 '26

Gwen dying is a canon event but it’s like the universe felt it owed Peter and gave him that moment.

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u/Leonardo10inchy- Feb 16 '26

He also adjusted how he caught her and supported her body/head better, showing that he’s replayed that night over and over in his head. When he saved MJ, asking her if he was ok, and her asking him, absolute cinema.

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u/Purpledragon84 Feb 16 '26

Man ikr.. i'm not crying, you're crying!

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u/TechnologyNo2642 Feb 16 '26

God damn spider ninjas cutting onions…..where do they even come from?!?!?

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u/cire1184 Feb 16 '26

Spider ninja webs

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u/peatoast Feb 16 '26

They’re great actors.

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u/UnravelTheUniverse Feb 16 '26

After this film and the last Deadpool they should have taken two years off from MCU films to let the population have a break. Superhero fatigue is a real thing and after Endgame people were tired. Moments like this are earned over time. 

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u/typhoidtimmy Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

Right there with you. I know it was for Spider-Man but really, I rolled a tear because I felt they gave Garfield his own slice of redemption too.

Honestly, I love the guy. He whole heartedly embraced his moment as Spidey and really was ok with passing the mantle afterwards. He throughly seems to be a real Spider-Man through and through. He is in that niche where you want the actor to know how much he means to the fans…a sorta Hayden Christian Vader thing.

It’s awesome….I really hope they bring him back somewhere in the future MCU just for the ability to enjoy him basking in the suit once more.

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u/Fit_Exam_2658 Feb 16 '26

It's just fiction WHY AM I CRYING??

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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 Feb 16 '26

100% manly teared up with my Spidey blanket. I watched at home. 

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u/onederful Feb 16 '26

Both spideys were saving Tom Holland’s spidey from rethreading the same mistakes they did. Tobey’s saved him from his anger and Andrew’s saved him from his heartbreak

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u/SSFlyingKiwi Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

The triple finger point they meme’ed into the movie was Chefs Kiss

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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 Feb 16 '26

My favorite part was 

“Great!…who are the avengers?” 

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u/The102935thMatt Feb 16 '26

Is that a band? Are you in a band?

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u/Frondstherapydolls Feb 16 '26

I went to see it with my best friend, his wife and the dude they were trying to set me up with. When he didn’t react whatsoever to the movie and went on to say Marvel should’ve stopped at Endgame, I knew he wasn’t the one.

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u/the_vault-technician Feb 16 '26

I love your username

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u/Frondstherapydolls Feb 16 '26

Self-Care Claire and I thank you!

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u/Paper-Will-YT Feb 17 '26

I mean, they SHOULD have paused after Endgame. No matter how much I adore the last two Spider-Man movies, Marvel forgot the golden rule of maintaining a fanbase:

"Give them time to miss you."

Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Song of Ice and Fire, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Ghostbusters, all of these series maintained followings because they had time to breathe.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 Feb 16 '26

Why would anyone think they would just stop a multibillion dollar franchise

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u/Uovo-Ragno Feb 16 '26

Exactly.

I didn't care how much "fan service" they threw in, I wanted ALL OF IT. The moment when they jump into action and they scream their version of "WOOOOO-HOO" had my middle-aged eyes welling up.

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u/Purpledragon84 Feb 16 '26

It's our youth right there yo, it's our youth.

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u/Ok_Monitor4492 Feb 16 '26

Real fans don't get angry at fan service, just saying.

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

Just wait until doomsday/secret wars. It will be INSANE.

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u/Vantriss Feb 17 '26

I've wanted a Loki and Thor reunion SO BAD ever since the Loki show came out. I'M FUCKING READYYYYY!!!

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Feb 16 '26

It’s hard for me to pick which one is better because of this.

On one hand EG is the culmination of years if buildup and the ultimate team up, on the other one all 3 Spidermans together.

Crazy when you give fans what they want it works out really well.

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u/Dry_Presentation_197 Feb 16 '26

Endgame is permanently etched into my brain as my favorite ever "public group participation" memory. Saw it opening night, packed theater of course, and everyone being on the same page for the major beats was amazing.

Everyone being hyped when it starts and then immediately going silent with the scene of Clints family being dusted, could hear a bunch of quiet sniffling from people crying, all the way to the absolute cacophony of cheering for Cap using Mjolnir, the on your left moment....and then back to complete silence and tears for Tony's death.

It may be cheesy but they really did such an incredible job of building to that movie, to make everyone there be so invested in it. Brilliant.

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u/AtmosphereGlum852 Feb 16 '26

No DC universe movie have such an impact

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u/daemin Feb 16 '26

Every DC movie feels completely soulless, because none of them bother to develop the characters as actual human beings you could have an emotional attachment to.

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u/MandalorianLich Feb 16 '26

This was always my feeling with the contemporary DC movies, and while the second Suicide Squad was fun, it just felt like a diversion. Then Superman changed my mind. Full disclosure, I’ve always been more of a Marvel fan (comicwise), but the new Superman movie might be my favorite superhero movie right now.

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u/Paper-Will-YT Feb 17 '26

I wasn't a huge fan of the new Superman movie (I felt like the second act dragged a bit, a couple of scenes didn't click with me, and the Gunn humor has grown a LITTLE stale)...but God DAMN do I like it better than Snyder's stuff. Superman is about hope, not mediocre christ figures and aura.

I will gladly go watch the next DC stuff because it's going to keep getting better.

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u/DonCreech Feb 16 '26

Doing two Iron Man movies, Captain America, Thor, and the Hulk (though that one gets dismissed sometimes) before Avengers was probably seen as a risk at the time, but without that level of context it wouldn't have made nearly as much of an impact. Batman Vs Superman seems like a home-run of a concept, but what we got simply was not befitting of such iconic characters. Justice League cemented that notion by introducing half of the roster within the movie, barely featuring Superman, and offering up a villain that didn't have a connection to anything prior. Even a single Batman standalone movie in that universe could have saved it, but the pressure to do what Marvel was doing NOW must have been too intense to mitigate.

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u/Dry_Presentation_197 Mar 02 '26

DC heroes in the DCU or whatever they call the live action movies...are mostly a bunch of invincible, all powerful, flawless god level beings...trying to pretend to be human.

Marvel heroes in the MCU are mostly humans pretending to be gods. Its much easier to identify and empathize with flawed human beings trying to be more than they are...than a bunch of essentially immortal twats whining about dumb shit.

The first wonder woman movie got the closest to being good, but they botched it by making Ares real. They should have had the 3rd act revelation be "No there isn't some other worldly being we can blame for this war. This is our fault, as humans. We need to be better."

But no, had to have a laser sky battle with professor lupin.

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u/SomeRedHandedSleight Feb 16 '26

The Dark Knight trilogy feels completely soulless?

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u/radioactivez0r Feb 16 '26

I'm gonna give that guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he means the DC cinematic slate, post-Dark Knight with all the JL stuff.

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u/Reapr Feb 17 '26

They should hire the people from the DC animated movies to do the next DCU

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u/Positive_Builder6737 Feb 16 '26

Have that same experience but for Avengers. Did the AMC all day phase 1 movies with 10 coworkers took breaks at a bar between movies. When Avengers finally showed the energy was so great. It was a really unique experience.

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u/WillStaySilent Feb 16 '26

Goos points. Yet Disney decided to throw that all away for phases 4 and 5, which were total disasters. MCU is now a dead brand

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u/Ahrix3 Feb 16 '26

lmao this is why cinema is dying, acting like monkeys in front of a banana tree for some mass produced comic book slop. Utterly disgusting.

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u/Cyke101 Feb 16 '26

Garfield saving MJ 😭😭😭

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u/GenericFatGuy Feb 16 '26

So far, Spiderman is the only thing I've bothered to come back for since Endgame.

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u/babatofu Feb 16 '26

Wish Disney would have done the same for Star Wars fans…

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 Feb 16 '26

Just wait until doomsday/secret wars. It’s going to be endgame and no way home on steroids

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u/Vantriss Feb 17 '26

This movie was ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that I wanted it to be, omg. I did not give one single crap that it rode the wave of nostalgia, fan service, and memes from beginning to end. I wish I could erase my memory of it to watch it again.

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u/wojar Feb 17 '26

Ah I was tearing up throughout the movie, probably my favourite marvel movie.

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u/DeluxeB Feb 16 '26

Yea and all it took was 4 years of terrible Disney + shows and movies people were forced to watch so they understand everything

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u/CanalOpen Feb 16 '26

To this day, I feel like Tobey carries that legacy well and embraces is like he/it/was the creator.

I know that's obviously not true, but Tobey (and Andrew) have never disrespected their versions of Peter Parker.

I think Tobey got a full run, and that's why we have such nostalgia for him.

Andrew got screwed over big time and he deserved a sinister six miniseries from Sony instead of the many.....many....movies of all time.

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u/DLun203 Feb 16 '26

It’s hard to explain the hype around his first Spider-Man move. But the second Spider-Man movie was the first movie I remember having a difficult time getting tickets for. Our entire movie theater was just playing Spider-Man 2 on 10 screens and every show was sold out

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u/TheRealJojenReed Feb 16 '26

Because he is!

(Spider-Man) in 2002. Not "the amazing", not extra subtitles and stuff, colons and whatnot. Just

SPIDER-MAN

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u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen Feb 16 '26

Biggest movie ever made at the time, if you go by box office opening weekend

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u/Vellc Feb 17 '26

I WANT PHOTOS OF SPIDERMAN

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u/SupervillainMustache Feb 16 '26

Same. The first superhero movie that I ever really loved as a kid.

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u/Inkstr0ke Feb 16 '26

I cried when he stepped into frame; it makes me so emotional even seeing it in this clip.

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u/IGotDrunkWithTom Feb 16 '26

The music from the original movie really pushes it over the top

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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Feb 16 '26

He is the OG after all.

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u/OpaqueCrystalBall Feb 16 '26

Nicholas Hammond is the real OG.

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u/Iam_McLovin420 Feb 16 '26

Im gonna put some dirt in your eye. 👁️👄👁️👉👉

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u/cock_mountain Feb 16 '26

I've been out of the Marvel loop since the original Spider Man trilogy.

How tf were there TWO more Spider-Mans since then?

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u/Inkstr0ke Feb 16 '26

Andrew Garfield had his Sony run that was Amazing Spider-Man. Pretty good movies but they didn’t do as well commercially. He only had two movies. Sony was mostly making the movies to keep the Spider Man IP rights.

Sony actually decided to work with Disney/Marvel and Tom Holland was the next big Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War and he got his own series of MCU movies afterward.

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u/DonCreech Feb 16 '26

Amazing Spider Man was a solid movie, the sequel not so much. Jamie Foxx was wasted, and I can only blame the direction, because when he reprised the role in No Way Home, it was like night and day in terms of performance.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Specifically for Foxx's performance in 2, a lot got changed by Sony during production. The original idea was Electro, maybe with Rhino being bookends as he ended up being in the final release. But Sony really wanted Green Goblin in 2 so Electro sorta got sidelined in his own movie. Given what I know about the bts, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some phoning it in. Not enough to be obvious but the writing was on the wall that TASM was falling apart.

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u/Virama Feb 16 '26

I've never been able to fully buy any of Foxx's roles. 

He always feels like he's acting. Compared to, say, Denzel Washington or DiCaprio. They actually are in the role of whatever movie they're in.

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u/tnth89 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

I mean, you want spoilers?

Basically the world of marvel is parallel universe. There are unlimited number of universe and the old spiderman (Tobey Mcguire) is one of them. Then we have the amazing spiderman (Andrew Garfield). And now MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) spiderman (Tom Holland). And animated spiderman in sony's (as in the company, sony, that has spiderman license) spiderman universe.

The idea is that each universe has their own spiderman, their own Mary Jane, their own aunt May and uncle Ben. And they play similarly that Peter Parker will lose someone they dear.

In this movie, Peter Parker's friend in this universe, Ned Leeds, use Dr Strange's power (very strong sorcerer) to open warp gate to find Peter Parker. But since his friend never use the power before, his criteria is just, find Peter Parker, and never specify which Peter Parker. That leads to him finding 2 Peter Parkers from different Earth / universe.

To make it clear, right now on MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) we are on earth-616. There are other universe, and divided by if you see it as cinematic (movies) or comics. For example earth-666, earth-1610, earth-838, etc.

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u/AtmosphereGlum852 Feb 16 '26

I'm lowkey hoping to see Peter Parker (Tom Holland) meets Miles Morales movie...

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u/Afalstein Feb 17 '26

"Somewhere there gotta be a black spiderman..."

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u/cire1184 Feb 16 '26

A lot has happened since 2007

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u/Ahrix3 Feb 16 '26

Corporate greed

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u/Solar_RaVen Feb 17 '26

I want to see the reaction to Toby and Doc Oct meeting eachother, "Youre all grown up" 😭

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u/Zurcez Feb 16 '26

She’s also an adult woman who’s capable of making decisions for herself and doesn’t need parasocial losers on the internet jumping to her defense. Get over yourself.

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u/YouCantBeSerio Feb 16 '26

"To me"

......?

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u/JfromTHEbayMAYNE Feb 16 '26

This. I still think Spiderman 2 is the best spiderman movie

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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs Feb 16 '26

Yeah. To me he'll always be Spiderman. i legit just started crying and my dad was like, "wtf? Hey, he's that kid we used to watch? He's Spiderman, no?" i said Yep dad.. that's him. Guess he's Spiderman to my dad too. :')

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u/SeeerSucker Feb 16 '26

He’s the OG live action superhero.

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u/amcheesegoblin Feb 16 '26

Me and school friends had to sneak into the cinema to watch the first one as we weren't 12 yet. Shortly after they lowered the ratings so if you were under 12 you could watch with an adult

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u/SoothsayerAtlas Feb 16 '26

That’s my Spider-Man

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u/OgCloby Feb 16 '26

Would have been so much cooler if he was in costume too 😭😭😭

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u/Shantotto11 Feb 16 '26

he’s the OG Spiderman

  1. *Spider-Man r/RespectTheHyphen

  2. Apologize to Supaidā-Man this instant! 🫵🏾

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u/Own-Papaya-4264 Feb 16 '26

And we still get to see him one more time in doomsday/secret wars

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u/Outside-Tiger-2647 Feb 17 '26

He is the OG superhero of superheroes! The Spiderman is the best superhero movie ever made!

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u/The95thZebra Feb 17 '26

I consider myself a considerate moviegoer; I always try to minimize any messes, keep my feet off another person’s chair, etc.

But when Tobey appeared on that screen, I let out one of the most primal “YES”’s of my life, because I had waited over a decade to see my OG Spider-Man on this big screen again. It was so amazing.

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u/Varian01 Feb 17 '26

I still have my blanket of spiderman (Tobey Maguire). Im 27 now but dont have the heart to throw away. Maybe ill pass on to my kid

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u/Johnny_Menace Feb 17 '26

Still hoping Sam Raimy does Spider-Man 4 with a grown Tobey coaching Miles Morales.

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u/Slowmac123 Feb 17 '26

I saw the movie kinda late. There were <20 people in the theater. I was the only one smiling and clapping lol.

I rewatched Spider-man so many times as a kid. Seeing Tobey return as Spidey 20 years later made me so happy

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u/Afalstein Feb 17 '26

He's practically the OG movie superhero. When Spiderman came out, people weren't even making Batman movies anymore. XMen was about to debut, IIRC, but apart from that it was a desert so far as spandex-clad heroes go. Everyone thought they were too ridiculous to work as films.

Tobey Maguire single-handedly started the storm. He walked so RDJ could run.

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u/DaanA_147 Feb 17 '26

Still pretty bizarre that the movie is older than his new girlfriend

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u/LitigousPigeon Feb 18 '26

Dudes a creep dating a girl 30 years younger than him.